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SpaceBoy Full Member USA 631 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 12:26:46 Whadda ya tink bout da Xserve? All I know is my poor old Quadra 950 is getting seriously jealous! SpaceBoy <"it's okay, HAL, I still love you!"> PS If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then you juuuuust might want to take a peek at www.apple.com AppleBASIC FOREVER! As of 4/8/02: TiBook G4/500, "Difference Engine" PB 1400/133, "KayPro II" PB 180/33, "Osbourne 1" PMac 7100/G3-266, "DEC Rainbow" and "Altair 8800" Quadra 950, "HAL 9000" iMac Rev.A/333mHz, "Deep Blue" Newton 120, "PADD"
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 12:44:17 quote: Whadda ya tink bout da Xserve? looks like it might work, dunno, but the chances of a new architecture tower lineup rollout at mwny just got a WHOLE LOT better. DDR G-4's comin'up! ZOOOOOOOOOM! maybe with FEETS! stirrups are gettin a little long in the tooth, maybe even a Ti_Quadra_660av (a la maniac) desktop design aesthetic! . . . . or not. jt ™. . Edited by - Trash80toG-4 on 14 May 2002 12:49:29
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 12:55:22 Almost half a terabyte 'o storage, nice! I'd like to have one for hackage, too!! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 12:56:35 quote: Whadda ya tink bout da Xserve? Looks like a titanium thin-crust pizza box!! Now if it only had dual 68060's then, I would have to liberate one! g4from128k ------------ -- The Liberated: PB 190cs, Outbound 2030E, Performa 450 -- The Originals: 128k, Mac II -- The Contraband: 7585e & 8575G3 FrankenMacs, Pismo PB, G4/450 AGP Tower mit Cinema Display
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 13:10:39 quote: quote: Whadda ya tink bout da Xserve? Looks like a titanium thin-crust pizza box!! Now if it only had dual 68060's then, I would have to liberate one! i like the warming oven, i'll take two dozen please! jt ™. .
scchicago Full Member USA 936 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 13:36:17 Looks pretty cool if you ask me. Although it is still a PPC! _________________ HotLineServer: scchicago.dynodns.net Website: http://scchicago.dynodns.net MyForumOnDelphi: http://forums.delphiforums.com/scchicago NOTE:HL AND HTTP SERVER ARE ONLY AVAILIBLE WHEN I'M ONLINE AIM:scchicago87 Yahoo!IM:scchicago
Wonkothesane Full Member USA 506 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 13:41:54 Well, Steve was willing to put PCI slots in it.....if only he was willing to put some in the iMac. It looks good, though-the picture of it open from the top reminds me of my 660A/V. Wonko The Sane Engineer-in-training 3 Macs Liberated "You can't possibly be a scientist if you mind people thinking that you're a fool."- Wonko The Sane
oldmacman Full Member USA 713 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 13:46:02 This is beautiful! Reminds me of that Beowulf cluster of 6100s I saw a while ago. What next, OS X on Cray hardware? Macs Liberated: SE (with SuperDrive), IIsi, Quadra 700, 6100, PB 5300, PowerMac 5400 PCs liberated from Windows: 3
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 14:08:35 quote: This is beautiful! Reminds me of that Beowulf cluster of 6100s I saw a while ago. What next, OS X on Cray hardware? no, but you've hit on a great ad piccie: a hex(or oct?)agon of those racks around a shortest distance fast networking hub like the old crays would be gorgeous! jt ™. .
TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 14:09:01 Ahh Apple has reborn the Pizza Box Mac. Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops 68k Hacks General Macs Liberated:18 ENTER THROUGH THE GATES
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 14:12:41 quote: quote: Whadda ya tink bout da Xserve? i like the warming oven, i'll take two dozen please! jt ?. . , I hadn't seen that one!!! So who is going to make a "warming oven" of LCs? Seems like a number of the regulars here (you know who you are ) have more than a rack's worth of pizzaboxes. Admittedly, getting 480 GB per LC might be hard, but a cluster of 68ks might make a nice hack for some general leading a platoon of LCs out of enemy territory. g4from128k ------------ -- The Liberated: PB 190cs, Outbound 2030E, Performa 450 -- The Originals: 128k, Mac II -- The Contraband: 7585e & 8575G3 FrankenMacs, Pismo PB, G4/450 AGP Tower mit Cinema Display
cinemafia Guerrilla Recon Leader USA 2965 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 16:26:43 The funny part is trying to find a comparable server from any other company for anything close to the Xserve's cost...it's not gonna happen. This is a bold move by Apple, and if they advertise it well, Apple will OWN the server market in no time! 666th poster and 666th thread-creator Mod of the Mac II series Forums Total 68K Macs liberated: 7 Regular Disappear!
Da Penguin Senior Member USA 1094 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 17:57:30 Who votes we move the Hotline Server to one of THESE!? hehehe....That and a DS3 Backbone ~The Drooling Penguin \|Captain, Intelligence Operations\| There is only one path and that is the path that you take, but you can take more than one path. 68k.torpedobird.com <-- Hotline Server
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 18:13:11 quote: The funny part is trying to find a comparable server from any other company for anything close to the Xserve's cost...it's not gonna happen. check out MachAch over at Ars, the server jockeys aren't all that impressed with the price point. dunno, i wanna see some in depth analysis, but i can tell you right now what macworld's review will say! <rolleyes> jt ™. .
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 18:35:07 Expensive, but seems damn fine to me! As they say in the ads - unny name, serious stuff. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
~Coxy Leader, Tactical Ops Unit Australia 2822 Posts	Posted - 14 May 2002 : 18:40:29 Actually, I'm reading the site again. The price is pretty fine for what you are getting: -Unlimited liscences for Mac OS X Server -4 Hot-swap drive bays -2 PCI slots -Gigabit Ethernet -Firewire! And all mounted in 1U of rack space. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit Mayor of NuBus City
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2002 : 01:44:55 quote: Ahh Apple has reborn the Pizza Box Mac. Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops 68k Hacks General Macs Liberated:18 ENTER THROUGH THE GATES Yeah. Whenever i look at that pic of the guts i think that Apple really has released the iPizzabox. -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
Trash80toG-4 NIGHT STALKER USA 2899 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2002 : 05:35:24 quote: quote: Ahh Apple has reborn the Pizza Box Mac. Yeah. Whenever i look at that pic of the guts i think that Apple really has released the iPizzabox. WOW! hadn't gotten that deep into the links there yet. that'd make an awesome shadow box, wall mounted CPU! or maybe in a custom workstation with a couple of rackmount swingout bays displayed under a glass desktop. that'd look kinda purty as a desktop (under glass) coproccesor for my MicroQuadraFeetsBox/Portrait,! that'd be one nice accelerator for a Mac with 68k Cachet! jt ™. .
G4from128k Full Member USA 873 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2002 : 06:08:11 quote: WOW! hadn't gotten that deep into the links there yet. that'd make an awesome shadow box, wall mounted CPU! or maybe in a custom workstation with a couple of rackmount swingout bays displayed under a glass desktop. that'd look kinda purty as a desktop (under glass) coproccesor for my MicroQuadraFeetsBox/Portrait,! that'd be one nice accelerator for a Mac with 68k Cachet! jt ?. . Now, I'm envisioning an XServe suspended from one of those hospital bedside IV drip poles. All the cords would drape down onto my desktop feeding me precious CPU cycles, pixels, n' packets for my daily Macintosh fix. (now if I could only install a firewire port in my skull, I'd be happy) g4from128k ------------ -- The Liberated: PB 190cs, Outbound 2030E, Performa 450 -- The Originals: 128k, Mac II -- The Contraband: 7585e & 8575G3 FrankenMacs, Pismo PB, G4/450 AGP Tower mit Cinema Display
AnubisTTP Junior Member USA 308 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2002 : 06:09:12 I want one. I imagine that the biggest selling point for these things will not be the hardware itself, but that unlimited OS X server lisense they come with. Oh, and the blue diode status displays on the front. Blue diodes are cool. AnubisTTP 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Macs Liberated:15
raWr Junior Member Tuvalu 491 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2002 : 07:10:12 I don't care. -raWr Fleet Covert Ops
FireWire is fast General, 4 star USA 1559 Posts	Posted - 15 May 2002 : 20:03:48 raWr, if you don't care, either stop posting or just get the hell out. seriously. -------------------- keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ --------------------
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2002 : 00:08:48 quote: raWr, if you don't care, either stop posting or just get the hell out. seriously. -------------------- keeper of the website and beholder of the Quadra/Centris Stick of Justice™ -------------------- Exactly. If you have somethign worthwhile posting, that may be of value to us, then post. If you don't, then don't post. -------------------------- Pizzabox LCs RULE!!!!!!! Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
TiMacLover Senior Member USA 1282 Posts	Posted - 16 May 2002 : 01:30:30 I didn't for like 3 months and look where I am! Kisses Feet of Mod gods Jeremy "I'll see you on the Dark Side Of The Moon" - Pink Floyd Covert Ops 68k Hacks General Macs Liberated:18 ENTER THROUGH THE GATES

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